Area Coordinator Responsibilities

Encourage Block Captains to have biannual meetings with the crime watch residents

Organize Block Captains to best cover the neighborhood and recruit replacement Block Captains when positions open up

Serve as the main contact between the Police Department and your neighborhood watch by receiving information from the Police Department and passing it on to the Block Captains

Submit crime watch sign requests

Block Captain Responsibilities

Meet with residents on a semi-annual basis (a Crime Prevention Officer can make presentations at these meetings or you might have a Block Party)

Nine House Sheet, various pamphlets

Notify Area Coordinator if they are no longer able to perform Block Captain Duties

Pass on the information received from the area coordinator to the individual residential households

Neighbor Responsibilities

As a Crime Watch Neighbor, your responsibilities is to be a good neighbor by watching out for one anthers property and by reporting suspicious activity to the police. You should know the three neighbors across the street from your home, on each side, and the three neighbors behind your residence.

You should have a heightened awareness for your neighbors welfare and you should be more than willing to report suspicious activity to the police. Citizens can be assured that when they report suspicious activity, their name will be held in strictest confidence.